There is a bright spot, left in post #1 of this thread.
Russell left the photo journal of his build: Picassa Album link. It documents his build in photos. What is missing, however, are the "hows" and "whys" of what he did and the friendly conversations between members of the Forno Bravo forum.

Russell, if you still browse the forum occasionally, I hope that life is treating you well. Like many others have said before-- "Your presence is missed!"

Russell's valuable contributions didn't mysteriously disappear. He painstakingly deleted them (over 1,000) then excused himself from a stream of ignorant comments from a poster (Huskerduck) who failed to understand that this site is about building wood-fired ovens, not race or an emerging economy's product quality.

Following a token ban and a handful of arrows, Fuskerhuck then excused himself, but the real losers are the current and future builders who would certainly have learned from Russell's insight and willingness to share.

Yeah that is a very sad story. I talked to him today and he put it much more plainly. In his words "I am taking a Hacienda from FB." Its definitely too bad. His build and posts were always a reference for me but now I guess I'll just call him when I have ?'s. Thanks for the update Gianni. I've been out of the scene for a little bit for the winter but am getting back in to the swing of things now and will be adding a bunch of things to my thread tomorrow.

Of course! I would never leave you guys out! You Rock and have already helped me a ton! Hopefully I can document well and not get too carried away. I want to set up my camera and start a time lapse of the build... I thought that would be cool.

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